Much of the beauty of latex is the fact that you don't have to 'aim' at a target document, because it's already easy to get a decent looking paper together with

Much of the beauty of latex is the fact that you don't have to 'aim' at a target document, because it's already easy to get a decent looking paper together with about ten minutes of copy/paste formatting. You don't HAVE to worry about it because it's already producing a good document! Granted, you CAN make arbitrary layouts with latex, but the beauty is in the macro system removing the need to think about the layout.